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Élie Ducommun
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Élie Ducommun

Swiss activist

Born 19 February 1833 · died 7 December 1906, aged 73
Also known as Elie Ducommun

Who was alive at the same time as Élie Ducommun?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Élie Ducommun, 1833 – 1906
  9. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  12. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  13. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  14. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Salvador Dalí, 1904 – 1989

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When Élie Ducommun was born, Karl Marx was 14, Abraham Lincoln was 24, Leo Tolstoy was 4, Charles Darwin was 24 and Victor Hugo was 30.

When Élie Ducommun died, Adolf Hitler was 17, Albert Einstein was 27, Vladimir Lenin was 36, Mahatma Gandhi was 37 and Leo Tolstoy was 78.

Born during Élie Ducommun’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Winston Churchill.

Not quite contemporaries: Ronald Reagan was born about 5 years after Élie Ducommun died, Nelson Mandela was born about 12 years after Élie Ducommun died, Napoleon died about 12 years before Élie Ducommun was born and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died about a year before Élie Ducommun was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,545 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Élie Ducommun. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1870.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  13. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  14. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  17. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  21. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  22. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  23. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  37. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  38. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  39. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  40. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  41. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  42. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  43. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  44. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  45. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  46. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  47. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  48. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  52. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  53. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  54. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  55. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  56. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  57. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  58. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  59. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  60. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  61. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  62. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  63. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  64. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  65. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  66. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  67. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  68. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  69. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  70. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  71. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  72. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  73. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  74. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  75. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  76. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  77. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  78. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  79. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  80. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  81. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  82. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  83. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  84. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  85. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  86. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  87. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  88. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  89. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  90. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  91. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  92. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  93. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  94. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  95. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  96. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  97. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  98. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  99. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  100. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  101. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  102. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  103. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  104. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  105. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  106. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  107. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  108. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  109. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  110. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  111. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  112. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  113. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  114. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  115. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  116. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  117. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  118. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  119. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  120. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  121. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  122. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  123. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  124. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  125. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  126. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  127. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  128. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  129. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  130. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  131. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  132. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  133. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  134. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  135. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  136. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  137. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  138. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  139. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  140. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  141. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  142. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  143. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  144. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  145. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  146. John Steinbeck 1902 – 1968
  147. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  148. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  149. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  150. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967